Google Gdrive Is The Real Deal?
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When I first happened upon this article on “proof” of the Google Gdrive, I will admit that it caught me a bit by surprise. Seeing Google fans still trying to keep the rumor alive about a fabled Gdrive seems rather silly to me. Factor in the cost of supporting such a service alone, I simply can not get my mind around this sort of thing as a value to Google in the long haul. Don’t get me wrong, give me real guarantees of privacy and data security, we might have a conversation here. But as it stands today as an idea, the Gdrive sounds more like a data breach nightmare to me personally.
During the course of this latest news of the Gdrive supposedly being released sometime this year, others have pointed out that they are perfectly fine with services such as Elephant Drive (Mac/Windows support), Amazon S3, CrashPlan (Linux, OS X and Windows support) amongst other options. Despite having to pay for them, the user realizes that unlike Google amazing lack of customer service behind their free products, paid services will generally provide someone to scream at when data goes missing. Not saying it will, but it is nice to have real customer support.
Privacy implications aside, something tells me a lot of foolish people are going to be swarming to this kind of service should it be given the green light. Think I am wrong or perhaps have other thoughts on the idea of the Gdrive going live, hit the comments and share your thoughts on the matter.
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Wyatt
January 20th, 2009
at 4:16pm
I have to agree. I was originally excited about the idea of Gdrive but I’m growing more and more concerned with the power of Google. There is no such thing as “free” here - whether you pay a fee or you pay with by exposing yourself to ads, you are paying one way or another.
I took a look at some of the others. I’m confused about one thing - are Elephantdrive and Amazon the same thing or different? Check out the logo on the elephantdrive page…
Fred
January 20th, 2009
at 5:11pm
For secondary backup of non-critical, non-privacy-issue files such as my mp3 collection or my photo collection, I think it will be lovely.
I wouldn’t put anything remotely private on there without a nice layer of encryption in front of it.
Ron
January 21st, 2009
at 2:19am
I just used MediaFire www.mediafire.com) and was very pleased with the ease with which I was able to upload and share some very large files (2 X 62 MB of pictures). They have a free and a “Pro” service
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at 1:56pm
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christian-socialist
January 27th, 2009
at 8:26pm
The internet itself without Gdrive is already a big loss of privacy. If i wasn’t so bored and if i wasn’t here at home i wouldn’t even use the internet. I’ve already had lots of problems because a lot of the things that we write is already published in the internet for others to read. We are doomed in this cyber-dictatorship.
Sam
February 8th, 2009
at 2:40pm
I hate seeing how Google is already taking down videos on YouTube because they don’t agree with the American people [you and me] telling the truth about certain political issues. Look into who silenced China. That’s right - Goggle had a big part in that. Now imagine your thoughts not being able to be shared because Google felt it was the “right” thing to do. Worse yet- with this platform Google will be reading our data and passing it on to the authorities [they will have no choice]. When in the world are we going to realize that giving up freedoms [even inch by inch] means that soon we will have none?